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Thoreau's Metaphor For Studying At Walden Pond

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Thoreaus study of the pond has become a metaphor for studying all things in nature including man because he went to live at walden pond to find himself within nature and become connected with nature. The depth of many layers of the pond is utilized, by Thoreau, to explain the many layers of men and nature than can be expolred. A man, for example has many aspects of himself that are not easily demonstrated similar to the unrevealed layers of Walden POnd. Thoreau decalres, “What I have observed of the pond is no less true in ethics. It is the law of average. Such a rule of the two diameters not only guides us toward the sun in the system and the heart in man, but draws lines through the length and breadth of the aggregate of
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